LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: MOTHER VULTURE AT EXETER PHOENIX, EXETER 31/01/26

Ever wished you could go back in time to see your favourite arena band in a smaller venue? A venue where you can crowd surf over the barrier and high five the singer, or hang out at the merch table after and buy a shirt from the drummer? Many of us will have had this daydream, the regrets for not getting out to the local venue when that- then- underground, and underappreciated act was in town.  Well the next, next big thing are out there now, lugging their own equipment, slinging their own merch, and at the end of a long, cold January, they were selling out The Phoenix in Exeter.